TECH PARKS- MAKING IT WORK IN INDIA

摘要

STPI was conceptualized in 1986 by the then Department of Electronics (the present Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology). Then nobody had really an iota of imagination about the possibility of outsourcing IT services, or how exports in this sector would be possible. Some incredibly talented and enterprising people envisaged how information technology as an industry would play a crucial role in the economic growth of the country. They dreamt about a huge, successful upcoming industry, built on the information technology outsourcing model, and created the frameworks for the legal, operational and business processes involved in it. Those frameworks are relevant till date. Finally, they came up with a scheme in 1986 for the promotion of software development and exports, along with a skills development resolution, and that was published in the Gazette of India. As a follow-up action, three Software Technology Parks (STPs) at Bhubaneswar, Bengaluru and Thiruvananthapuram were created in 1989. One of the major IT reforms by the Indian Government was the creation of the autonomous society called Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) in 1991 in which all the three STPs were merged to create a single entity. STPI was created as a nodal agency to promote software development, hardware manufacturing and export of both.